Anti-patternv1AP-038
Assumed-bottleneck anti-pattern
guessing where the system bottleneck is based on frustration or salience rather than measurement, which directs optimization effort at non-constraints while the actual bottleneck continues limiting throughput
Why This Is an Anti-Pattern
Inverts bottleneck-determines-throughput (Bottleneck-determines-throughput pattern). Violates Cognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance (calibration). Recurs in premature optimization, wrong-problem-solving, management by intuition.